michel, I could see your point if he had cancer or had been in an accident or something not of his own hand. But this is all self-inflicted, and as he has forced his climate policies on us, so we need show him no mercy when he falls victim to his own lying.

Huhne's performances on the stump shrilly whipping up hatred of "deniers" - which are cataloged on YouTube will soon disabuse you of any sympathy for this gent - this guy is not an hnurable adverary in adversity - he is a (epithet of choice),

If he had pleaded guilty at an early stage of this affair then he might well have got away with either a community service order or a suspended sentence.Since this is his fourth (?) court appearance, 12 good persons and true have been called up to look at the evidence and only now does he decide to plead guilty, rest assured that m'lud will be very much less than amused and any discount that he could have expected (and under the UK's increasingly bizarre legal system would have been entitled to) will not apply."Sorry, Chris, but that bus has already left."I very much doubt that he will escape a custodial sentence.

Most of us, if caught speeding, would accept it as a fair cop and take the fine and the points on the chin.

Huhne blustered about being innocent, and the combination of arrogance and stupidity he demonstrated means he richly deserves the flak. Someone in his position should know that perverting the course of justice is a far worse offence than speeding.

And apart from that, he's a slimy creep with no integrity, as revealed by what we know of his private life. Don't feel sorry for him. If the positions were reversed, he wouldn't feel sorry for you.

It's a shame it isn't like the football leagues in that when a team has been found to be breachign employment rules, they get stripped of all the cups and titles retrospectively. Imagine they had to rule that the CCA was now null and void because of it.

Michel - if AGW had never been an issue and Huhne wasn't a key player I’m sure I wouldn’t care what Huhne got up to or if he got caught doing it. However in this time of CO2 condemnation, I can only cheer that this smug SOB gets done for lying about speeding in his petrol guzzling car between the airport, after a fuel guzzling trip, and his palatial, energy guzzling, home/office. Not sure if it was office or home or indeed which home since he owns seven of them.

That he lied comes as no surprise and he’d never have got into trouble if he’d not been cheating on his wife too. This case could only be more ironic if the guy had been coming back from a climate conference.

Since people like this are happy for us to shoulder the burden of their obsession with CO2 then I’m happy to engage in a bit of schadenfreude when they crash and burn.

The infinitely greater crime for which he will never be punished was complicity in the AGW fraud which has cost the public billions already with far greater sums to be squandered in the pipeline and no hope of the harm ever being undone.

What a dance he has lead us all and not least his constituents, like Blair and merrily using his position to to prosecute his biased wrong headed ethos.

After all and at every and any opportunity, this low fellow pleaded his innocence. Chris Huhne, a denier if ever there was one - was in his own eyes was as pure as the driven snow. Doubtless and behind the scenes furiously he pulled strings and called in favours, spent much lucre, fought like a drowning ferret in a sack to subvert the course of justice, at last he realised he couldn't and the ghastly game was up, shame, shame on him.

Shame on the Westminster bubble too for giving him succour, shame on the Liberal Democrat party for sheltering and supporting this most base politician - but who is really surprised? Is he not a type, one typical of the breed of modern politician?

I think, this has wider implications, how the left love lying charlatans, justification is all - "it's OK if you lie, the cause is 'just' ".

Much of the bubble at Westminster, needs to take stock, particularly the left leaning media [bbc - how they applauded him in Cancun and Durban] who championed Huhne, his green credentials, the rabidly pro EU credentials and gloried in his driven desire to impose involuntarily the green agenda on the citizens of Britain.

It is interesting that Vicky Pryce has pleaded not guilty. This is consistent with the conclusion some of us drew from Huhne's denial that he had asked her to accept his points, which was that he had just dumped them on her without asking. What a nice man.Filbert you are right he has behaved in exactly the same way as Armstrong, who should also go to jail for his lies in his lawsuits against the Sunday Times and others.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving person, could it..? Its always nice when politicians, who think they are above the law, are brought smartly down to earth...Shame, as Martin Reed (above) puts it, that he can't be charged with the much greater evil of stuffing the rest of us with ludicrous, costly and irrelevant 'green' energy policies.